An Apology to KC

Lets get right to the point: I discovered that it was NOT KC Green, creator of GunShow who led the comment from Rack Jeacher on December 30th, but instead was one of his fans. I made a leap I shouldn’t have, and then said some hateful, petty things about KC Green and his comic. I called him a child, said he had a lazy mind, called his talent into question, etc.

All of this is uncalled for, and wrong. I apologize to KC for saying these things. It was wrong for me to jump to conclusions, and mean and petty for me to say horrible things about him and his work. I truly am sorry, KC.

I make this apology not because his idiot fans and their ludicrous comments, but because it is right to apologize for a wrong doing, and I have done wrong to KC.
Do I apologize for calling him out on not being able to discuss a movie without resorting to cutesy comments? No. Why?

My reason still stands. If he didn’t want to discuss it, he should have ignored me. Was I aggressive in my approach. Yes, and for that I don’t apologize.

If you make a statement I do not agree with and word it in a way I find silly, then I might just tell you so with the way I word my inquiry.

To all you KC acolytes commenting, I’m going to answer some of you in the comments section. Most of you are cowardly keyboard cowboys. What’s the matter fellas, afraid to put your name on a statement? Afraid to leave a REAL email address?

That makes you a coward, and your comments will be given the consideration they deserve.

Thanks for your patience, readers. I’ll try not to be such a hot head in the future.

KC Green, you take it easy, sir, and please accept this sincerest apology in the spirit it is given. Enjoy your success, but keep an eye on those fans of yours.

Those types may eventually turn on you. Watch out.

-John

Discussion (12) ¬

Don’t you think you might have come off as just a little entitled to a response after it was made clear that he didn’t want to? Also if you saw his comments as just silly, cutesy crap why did you feel the need to dignify them with a response?

Daryn! Thank you for using your REAL name! I respect and appreciate that! Here is how I see it: Many of you in the KC camp love to throw around that word “entitled”.
My position is this: if he didn’t want to talk, all he had to do was NOT respond. Why did I respond in kind after I saw that he was answering me with silly comments? Well, the first comment was serious, wasn’t it? So it seemed we were having a conversation. What it comes down to is why I was angered by his cutesy responses, I guess. Well, I guess I’m just used to discussing movies. From the time I was in high school, I’ve enjoyed rigorously discussing movies. EVERY movie. From the silliest Disney movie to the most respected Kurosawa classic is given the same consideration. I learned a long time ago not to look down my nose at a “children’s movie” or “action movie”. I learned that each film is to be given equal consideration, and that they are to be judged according to their genre, and intended audience. Why? Well, believe it or not, the same amount of work that goes into the typical action movie as it does your favorite Wes Anderson Movie. Movies are a lot of work, and in order to finish one, you have to have passion and determination. Don’t believe me? One of these days, go look at the behind the scenes features of the Return of Superman. SO MUCH passion went into that movie!! They worked and fretted and worried over EVERY DETAIL! And yet the movie just isn’t very good.
Getting back to KC, basically, I felt that he was acting like an elitist snob. Was he? Probably not. In hindsight, it probably was’t fair of me to expect him to discuss movies like a movie nerd, or a motion picture professional.
The interesting thing is, that most of his fans, when rallying to his defense, basically acted exactly the way I thought KC was acting. They started attacking my strip, my drawing style, and the movies I’ve worked on. They all gleefully quoted that idiotic Dreamworks meme about the smirks. This was all in retaliation to my really shitty remarks about his work. I get that. Still, in my mind, it confirmed a lot of longly held beliefs about the hipster comic crowd.
That probably doesn’t answer your question. Basically, I hate snobbery, and his responses felt like snobbery.

I need to learn to fit all my statements in one comment… Ahem. I’m seeing some negative generalization about KC’s fans. This was one jerk. I’m sure plenty of people dig both your work and his, aren’t idiots, and wouldn’t troll in the comments. This goes for fans of just him or just you as well

I approved, and then trashed several comments, Dimestore. All from different IP addresses. KC’s feed is full of people who think I’m a monster, a hack or just an asshole. Granted, many of my readers think he’s a hipster douchebag. I can be an asshole at times, but I’m neither a monster or a hack, and I’m sure KC isn’t a hipster douchebag. People get riled up and want to get in on the drama. I figure that’s what all the comments from “Tom Cruise” and Rack Jeacher” are about.

As a woman I’d rather not use my real name on the internet in case someone with too much time and too little sanity decides to hunt me down. I’ve already got one guy stalking me and I don’t need any more.

What was your first clue that I wasn’t KC? The fact that I didn’t use his name, that I didn’t even once pretend to be him, or that you might not actually be the hot stuff you think you are? Dang, if you had just taken what I said constructively and realized how rough your writing is, that Marmaduke is not an intellectual property you own, and that you MAY have some room for improvement? But no. I love seeing how much backlash you created for yourself in the wake of this. Baffled that you’re a paid artist. Stop being so holier than though and generalizing groups of people. Are you a racist, too? You seem too quick to write people and their opinions off rather than face the fact you may not be a perfect person. All this mock humility, too. Eat humble pie, John Sanford.

By the way, my name isn’t important. Stop calling me a coward. I am a wake up call, I am the antidote to your megalomania. Put less effort into tearing others down and see what you need to do to be a better person.

I’ll keep calling you a coward until you use your real name. Stand by your words. Right or wrong, I stand by everything I say, even when I have to apologize. Own it, or get lost.
This to me is long dead and over with.This was a year ago, for pete’s sake. That’s like 100 years in internet time.
I’m dealing with some stuff today, so I don’t have a whole lot of time to play with you, coward.
Until you put your name to your opinions, you mean nothing to me. I’ll give you time to see this, then I’ll delete your dopey comments. Bye, coward.

Man, you’re just gonna keep holding on to your fear of who I am, deflecting all valid things I have to say because of one little thread that you can hold on to and repeat ad nauseum. I don’t need a face, I don’t need a name. When I tell you that your mediocre comic needs work if you EVER want it to be good, that you have a lot of pomposity to reject my criticism and weep crocodile tears for your treatment of other artists, then you worry only about what you need to change in order to succeed.
By god, man, 8 months is not a year. I only took so long to remember your site because I completely forgot the name.
Stand behind your circle of friends that tell you everything’s going to be alright. Convince yourself that what I say isn’t true because I don’t share my name. Don’t admit that the most traffic your site has ever seen was when you boiled a petty stew with an artist. Then, my friend, you’ll be 100 years irrelevant. Content, perhaps, with your own personal Marmaduke, but lost to the sands of time.

Deleting a comment proves nothing. You have moderative power over your own website, golly gosh! You know that I’m right, and if you delete this, then I’ll know you know too.

I’m scared? My fear? I’m the one using my real name. You’re the coward hiding behind a handle. One of us is deflecting and projecting, and it isn’t me. No, see, I’m ignoring you, because you’re a coward.
Oh, and who gives a shit if no one remember this strip? It’s an exercise, a release and frankly, I have moved on and working on other things. I don’t do this for notoriety. I do it because I enjoy it, and to learn things. Everything eventually ceases to be relevant. Congratulations for having nothing better to do than lost comments to an irrelevant site under a fake name because you’re too scared to stand by your words. And look at me, answering you! What the hell am I doing? Well, I’m fascinated by your cowardly chest beating. Please hit me with some more clever critiques like the Marmaduke thing. That’s hilarious. You’re a regular Maddox!